Struggle–La Lucha: “Mumia Abu-Jamal – a prolific writer, human rights activist, voice for the voiceless – told the Guardian in a telephone interview, “Hope is an element of Struggle, is it not?” He said, “As we used to say in the old days, ‘A luta continua.’”

…Mumia Abu-Jamal is a grandfather, award-winning broadcast journalist, prolific author, and former Lieutenant of Information for the Philadelphia Chapter of the Black Panther Party. He has devoted his reporting career to supporting Black liberation and exposing brutality and corruption within the police and prison system. On Dec. 9, 1981, he was arrested by the Philadelphia Police Department on suspicion of the murder of a police officer after being shot himself. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.

Mumia was initially detained pretrial at the Detention Center and Holmesburg Prison, from December of 1981 through May of 1983. He was held in continuous solitary confinement on death row at SCI Greene and Huntingdon for 28 years from 1983-2011. In 2011, his death sentence was overturned, and he was resentenced to life in prison without parole, also known as ‘Death By Incarceration.’ From 2012 to present, he has been detained at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Mahanoy, a state prison operated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania….

Considering all the efforts nationally and internationally to release Mumia, with legal appeals exhausted, Mumia’s legal team petitioned the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to examine Mumia’s case and support efforts to release him. The petition was submitted on July 28, 2026 by the Abolitionist Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Center for Constitutional Rights, California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), and Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPPC).”

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